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Word: psychopaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some have called Buettner-Janusch a psychopath; others say he made drugs in his lab for the perfectly legitimate purpose of testing the reactions of lemurs, that he did not deserve a criminal sentence, and that this latest incident of poisoned chocolates is simply evidence of a mind warped by an unfair trial and a harsh prison sentence...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Drugs And Chocolate | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...last studio album, Element of Light, the songs here are mostly acoustic and feature some nifty harmonica tooting. This choice of instrumentation gives Invisible a homey feel, even if the subject matter is outlandish and alienating. In fact, listening to this record is kind of like inviting the neighborhood psychopath to jam on your front porch...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: VINYL | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...taken Stone ten hungry years to get the project going. "For two years in the late '70s," says Producer Martin Bregman, "I banged on every door in California to get it done, but at that time Viet Nam was still a no-no." Tom Berenger, the film's showcase psychopath, imagines that "it must have made Stone feel like an old man, carrying the project around for so long. He said it broke his heart." Then something interesting happened: people went for Platoon. Most critics were impressed, many were impassioned, and even those who trashed the picture helped make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...those four were confined to criminal and psychiatric populations. The test also needs better adaptation to the psychology of adolescence. For almost 40 years, some psychologists have noted that the MMPI profile of the normal youngster temporarily caught in adolescent turmoil is similar to that of the adult psychopath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Face-Lift for a Famous Test | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

Watch out, America, full moon's coming. That's when a wily psychopath -- a werewolf of modern paranoid fantasies -- turns some idyllic suburban home into a slaughterhouse. And when anyone wanders too close, the psycho (Tom Noonan) festers into action. A tabloid journalist (Stephen Lang) ends up flambeed in a runaway wheelchair. A photo-lab technician (Joan Allen), whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Slumming in Summertime | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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